Hi,

Using Python anf the pygbif library, you can do something like this:

from pygbif import species, occurrences

taxon_name = "Myrtales" # an order level taxon
taxon_rank = "order"

key = species.name_backbone(name=taxon_name, rank=taxon_rank)["usageKey"]
n = occurrences.count(taxonKey=key, isGeoreferenced=True)
print n, " record(s) for ", taxon_name

This script allows to retrieve the number of records at a given taxonomic level; it can be modified to retrieve the records themselves (or selected parts of them).

Hope this helps.

Salud!


2016-09-01 10:19 GMT-03:00 Eduardo Dalcin <edalcin@jbrj.org>:
Hi Tim, Thanks for the prompt reply. Yes, I'm aware of the KEY parameter. My comment is that at the filter, for humans that are not aware of those "obscure codes", still no way to select upper taxonomic ranks but species, through scientific name. Am I right?

Eduardo


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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Tim Robertson <trobertson@gbif.org> wrote:
Hi Eduardo,

I hope you are well.  I’m not sure I understand your comment I’m afraid.  
Taxonomic filters have been working in GBIF since 2007 and they can be combined with any other filters.  They are the most used search filters, which all species pages link to.


I presume you mean something else though - can you please explain and I’ll try and help?

Thanks,
Tim



From: Eduardo Dalcin <edalcin@jbrj.org>
Date: Thursday 1 September 2016 at 14:55
To: Tim Robertson <trobertson@gbif.org>
Cc: "api-users@lists.gbif.org" <api-users@lists.gbif.org>
Subject: Re: [API-users] Changes in GBIF.org and API

Congrats folks! Great job!

Still no way to separate plants of animals, or I missing something?

Cheers

Eduardo


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Trabalho / Work: +55 21 3204 2116
WhatsApp / Telegram: +55 21 98393 3344
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Tim Robertson <trobertson@gbif.org> wrote:
Hi folks,

I am very happy to let you know that a new release of GBIF.org went online at lunchtime today with the following enhancements:

Occurrence downloads
  • The rights.txt file: has been changed to list all the licenses of datasets included in that download.
  • DwC-A based downloads and the Datacite metada (DOIs) use the most restrictive license of the datasets included in the download defaulting to CC-BY.
  • The CSV downloads contain a new column ‘License’.
The Dataset search page now supports faceted navigation by license: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/search?license=CC_BY_4_0 

In the release, we have temporarily broken the “repatriation” filter which is being re-enabled now, and will be online again tomorrow.  Sorry about this partial outage of that search term.

Many thanks,
Tim



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